Beyond State Crisis? : Post-Colonial Africa and Post-Soviet Eurasia in Comparative Perspective

by Beissinger, Mark R.; Young, M. Crawford

• ISBN13: 9781930365070
• ISBN10: 1930365071
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-02-08
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

Summary

This book compares sub-Saharan Africa and the former Soviet Union, two regions beset by the breakdown of states suffering from extreme official corruption, organized crime extending into warlordism, and the disintegration of economic institutions and public institutions for human services. The contributors not only study state breakdown but also compare the consequences of post-communism with those of post-colonialism.

Author Biography

Mark Beissinger and M. Crawford Young are professors of political science at the University of Wisconsin--Madison.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Overview and Retrospective
Introduction: Comparing State Crises across Two Continents	p. 3
Convergence to Crisis: Pre-Independence State Legacies and Post-Independence State Breakdown in Africa and Eurasia	p. 19
Sovereignty, Violence, and War
At the Edge of the World: Boundaries, Territoriality, and Sovereignty in Africa	p. 53
Who Is Strong When the State Is Weak? Violent Entrepreneurship in Russia's Emerging Markets	p. 81
Mafiya Troubles, Warlord Crises	p. 105
Weak States and Private Armies	p. 129
Civil Wars and State-Building in Africa and Eurasia	p. 161
The Effects of State Crisis on African Interstate Relations (and Comparisons with Post-Soviet Eurasia)	p. 189
Democratization and Political Economy
Russia: Unconsolidated Democracy, Creeping Authoritarianism, or Unresolved Stagnation?	p. 217
War, State-Making, and Democracy in Africa	p. 241
The East Goes South: International Aid and the Production of Convergence in Africa and Eurasia	p. 263
Economic Reform and the Discourse of Democracy in Africa: Resolving the Contradictions	p. 291
State and Society
Ethnicity and State-Building: Accommodating Ethnic Differences in Post-Soviet Eurasia	p. 323
Beyond Cultural Domination: Institutionalizing Equity in the African State	p. 359
Women and Political Change in Post-Soviet Eurasia and Postcolonial Africa	p. 385
Beyond State Crisis?
Putting the State Back Together in Post-Soviet Georgia	p. 413
After the Fall: State Rehabilitation in Uganda	p. 445
The Effective State in Postcolonial Africa and Post-Soviet Eurasia: Hopeless Chimera or Possible Dream?	p. 465
Contributors	p. 487
Index	p. 491
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